Every Bill Led or Signed

248 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–200.

SR 5 Memorializing Congress to enact the Employee Free Choice Act. Coauthor 2009
SJR 82 Commemorating the 40th Earth Day celebration. Coauthor 2009
SJR 74 The retirement of Russ Whitesel, Senior Staff Attorney, Legislative Council Staff, following a long and distinguished career in nonpartisan service to the Wisconsin legislature. Coauthor 2009
SJR 61 Prohibiting partial vetoes of parts of bill sections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 58 Honoring the service and safe return of Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team from its deployment in Iraq. Lead author 2009
SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 10 The dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Coauthor 2009
SB 80 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Coauthor 2009
SB 71 Preexisting condition exclusions, modifications at renewal, and establishing a standard application for individual health benefit plans and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 7 The filing of certain forms related to tax incremental financing district number ten in the city of Chippewa Falls. Lead author 2009
SB 698 Authorizing medically related actions by physician assistants. Lead author 2009
SB 687 Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems. Coauthor 2009
SB 664 Financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. Coauthor 2009
SB 659 Review by the Joint Committee on Finance of the expenditure of certain federal funds by the Department of Natural Resources. Lead author 2009
SB 658 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court. Lead author 2009
SB 656 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 651 Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Coauthor 2009
SB 640 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 63 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. Coauthor 2009
SB 626 Modifications to platting requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 623 Processing certain applications for farmland preservation agreements. Lead author 2009
SB 617 Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors. Coauthor 2009
SB 610 Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 608 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Lead author 2009
SB 603 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. Coauthor 2009
SB 602 Causing a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 601 Comprehensive planning. Lead author 2009
SB 599 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 598 The procedure for school district consolidations. Coauthor 2009
SB 596 Transportation aid to school districts. Lead author 2009
SB 595 Transportation of private school pupils. Lead author 2009
SB 593 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 585 Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. Coauthor 2009
SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
SB 578 Adding a member to the council on veterans programs. Lead author 2009
SB 558 Feeding of deer for viewing purposes. Coauthor 2009
SB 557 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. Coauthor 2009
SB 538 Requiring nursing homes to notify residents of certain alleged violations and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 528 Methods of voting by members of a cooperative. Coauthor 2009
SB 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. Coauthor 2009
SB 515 Authorization for final disposition of a decedent's remains. Coauthor 2009
SB 514 Additions to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program. Coauthor 2009
SB 51 Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings. Lead author 2009
SB 507 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. Coauthor 2009
SB 503 Requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. Lead author 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 471 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. Coauthor 2009
SB 461 An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 455 The wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. Coauthor 2009
SB 452 A sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities. Lead author 2009
SB 447 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 443 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 442 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 439 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
SB 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Lead author 2009
SB 432 The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes. Lead author 2009
SB 43 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
SB 428 Seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops. Lead author 2009
SB 427 Expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. Lead author 2009
SB 426 The format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. Lead author 2009
SB 425 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Lead author 2009
SB 424 Regulating certain sport shooting ranges. Lead author 2009
SB 418 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 409 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 400 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Coauthor 2009
SB 40 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Lead author 2009
SB 399 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Lead author 2009
SB 392 Registration of former military vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 390 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Coauthor 2009
SB 39 Cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program. Lead author 2009
SB 378 Exempting certain capital expenditures made by a technical college district from the requirement for a referendum. Coauthor 2009
SB 35 The distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. Coauthor 2009
SB 342 Pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant. Lead author 2009
SB 341 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 336 Requiring a person arrested for a felony or a juvenile taken into custody for certain sexual assault offenses to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, inclusion of the analysis results in the Department of Justice deoxyribonucleic acid data bank, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 328 Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. Coauthor 2009
SB 325 Notification to a parent before chaperoning a sex offender. Lead author 2009
SB 323 Requiring newborn hearing screening. Coauthor 2009
SB 305 Allowing a member of a group fishing party to catch a fish using the bag limit of another member. Lead author 2009
SB 304 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. Lead author 2009
SB 30 Underage persons possessing, consuming, or being provided alcohol beverages on licensed premises when accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse. Coauthor 2009
SB 3 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. Coauthor 2009
SB 291 Authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts. Coauthor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 2009
SB 284 Designating and marking USH 63 as the Gaylord Nelson Highway. Lead author 2009
SB 277 Costs eligible for reimbursement under the Local Roads Improvement Program administered by the Department of Transportation. Lead author 2009
SB 276 Requiring governmental bodies of school districts and certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites. Lead author 2009
SB 274 Requiring landlords to change locks. Coauthor 2009
SB 272 Challenging the ballots of electors at polling places. Coauthor 2009
SB 261 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Lead author 2009
SB 254 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 253 Traffic control devices used by school safety patrols. Lead author 2009
SB 242 Creating separate regulatory requirements for certain future service contracts. Lead author 2009
SB 24 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 235 Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons. Lead author 2009
SB 224 Notice of proposed vacation of certain highways. Coauthor 2009
SB 223 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Coauthor 2009
SB 219 Causing injury to a law enforcement officer while resisting or obstructing an officer or while attempting to flee and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 213 Notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions. Lead author 2009
SB 208 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 2 The filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer. Coauthor 2009
SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 183 The provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 178 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 173 The removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs. Lead author 2009
SB 171 Retail theft, proof of ownership for flea market sales, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 167 The minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 138 Creating an income and franchise tax credit for motor vehicles that use gasoline and ethanol mixtures as fuel and for fuel efficient hybrid motor vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 135 Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Coauthor 2009
SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 127 Notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability. Coauthor 2009
SB 118 Prohibiting an insurer from requiring a certain vendor for repairing a motor vehicle, requiring adjusters to inspect motor vehicle damage, and insurance payments for motor vehicle repair costs. Lead author 2009
SB 117 Extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use. Lead author 2009
SB 111 Adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. Coauthor 2009
SB 106 Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately. Coauthor 2009
SB 102 Periods of revocation of driving privileges after committing certain offenses related to operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Coauthor 2009
SB 1 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AJR 91 Declaring October to be Adopt a Shelter Pet Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 90 The life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 136 Commemorating the 40th Earth Day celebration. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 109 Prohibiting partial vetoes of parts of bill sections (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 108 Commending the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Brigade, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, for receiving the Walter T. Kerwin Jr. Award. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
AB 958 Review by the Joint Committee on Finance of the expenditure of certain federal funds by the Department of Natural Resources. Cosponsor 2009
AB 950 Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems. Cosponsor 2009
AB 949 Financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 916 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Cosponsor 2009
AB 913 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court. Cosponsor 2009
AB 912 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 906 Modifications to platting requirements. Cosponsor 2009
AB 904 Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 899 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Cosponsor 2009
AB 895 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 889 Causing a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 888 Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 87 Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure. Cosponsor 2009
AB 840 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. Cosponsor 2009
AB 835 Adding a member to the council on veterans programs. Cosponsor 2009
AB 834 Comprehensive planning. Cosponsor 2009
AB 831 Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. Cosponsor 2009
AB 818 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 810 Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors. Cosponsor 2009
AB 809 Transportation of private school pupils. Cosponsor 2009
AB 808 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 807 Transportation aid to school districts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 806 The procedure for school district consolidations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 805 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 794 Nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credits for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system and fuel for such a system, property tax exemptions for thermal biomass heating systems and facilities used to store fuel for such systems, and a sales and use tax exemption for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system. Cosponsor 2009
AB 792 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 783 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Cosponsor 2009
AB 78 Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings. Cosponsor 2009
AB 779 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 768 Authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones. Cosponsor 2009
AB 76 Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish rules allowing living will and health care power of attorney information to be included on driver's licenses, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 749 An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass. Cosponsor 2009
AB 743 Processing certain applications for farmland preservation agreements. Cosponsor 2009
AB 731 Methods of voting by members of a cooperative. Cosponsor 2009
AB 73 Cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 727 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 702 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 700 Authorization for final disposition of a decedent's remains. Cosponsor 2009
AB 691 Requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. Cosponsor 2009
AB 690 A sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities. Cosponsor 2009
AB 69 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 683 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 68 The distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
AB 676 Notification to a parent before chaperoning a sex offender. Cosponsor 2009
AB 657 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 654 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 651 The wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. Cosponsor 2009
AB 65 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 648 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 642 An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 641 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 640 Expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. Cosponsor 2009
AB 639 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 638 The format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. Cosponsor 2009
AB 636 The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 63 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Cosponsor 2009
AB 628 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Cosponsor 2009
AB 623 Seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops. Cosponsor 2009
AB 622 Pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant. Cosponsor 2009
AB 614 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 605 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Cosponsor 2009
AB 603 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Cosponsor 2009
AB 600 Authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 589 Registration of former military vehicles. Cosponsor 2009
AB 546 Requiring governmental bodies of certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites. Cosponsor 2009
AB 515 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 511 Requiring a person arrested for a felony or a juvenile taken into custody for certain sexual assault offenses to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, inclusion of the analysis results in the Department of Justice deoxyribonucleic acid data bank, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 509 Exempting certain capital expenditures made by a technical college district from the requirement for a referendum. Cosponsor 2009
AB 491 Requirements for employment as the commandant at a veterans home. Cosponsor 2009
AB 488 Requiring newborn hearing screening. Cosponsor 2009
AB 461 Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. Cosponsor 2009
AB 44 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 431 Fees charged to qualified lake associations for certain permits to control aquatic plants. Cosponsor 2009